Check out Winning by Default, my contribution to the first @statesforum.bsky.social journal -- about how state civil courts hearing so many debt collection and housing cases can adapt to function without defendants, without lawyers, and ultimately, without courts. statesforum.org/journal/issu...

Just in time for the new semester, @guyrub.bsky.social, Ethan Leib, @pamelabookman.bsky.social, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social, Tal Kastner, & @jakelinford.bsky.social have made available a new open-source contracts casebook. lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractspro...

My co-authors (@jakelinford.bsky.social, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social, @pamelabookman.bsky.social, Ethan Leib, & Tal Kastner) and I are excited to share a new project: an open-source, free, customizable & modular contract law casebook. Check it out! lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractspro... ‪

Looking to make sense of our world of sanctions and economic statecraft? (Yeah, me too!) Next Friday, February 21 at @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social, the Fordham International Law Journal symposium on Economic Sanctions: go.activecalendar.com/FordhamUnive...

Great public service here by @aratojulian.bsky.social for those of us getting going under another sky....

Must follow account 👇

go.bsky.app/DVWzYxf Work in progress

And, indeed, Musk’s action has not remained in federal court. Judge Pappert makes swift and nearly disdainful work of Musk’s attempts to grasp at federal jurisdiction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When I wrote about how US tech giants should be wary of pushing litigation out of US courts bc they might instead be sued elsewhere under less favorable legal regimes, I confess I did not see this *decillion*-dollar Russian judgment coming www.google.com/amp/s/www.nb...

I've posted my short article, "Evidence of Compliance," written for the Clifford Symposium. It asks, should evidence of compliance with regulatory safety standards be admissible to show absence of a design defect? I could still tweak, so comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #368,696! Not too shabby ...

This is fun trivia! Check it out!

Fascinating study of the many fed ct cases resolved w/out adjudication. Cf. state courts, where so many cases are resolved by default judgment. (See Default Procedures papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) The state and fed ct trends raise similar vexing Qs abt what US cts do and what they should do.

Thanks to Robin Effron for a generous JOTWELL post on my article, Default Procedures, forthcoming in U. Penn. L. Rev. (2025). It's about default judgments in state ct debt collection cases -- comments welcome!

Carla Sofia Ferreira (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social), with one of my favorite poems of all time

📰 Dutch Supreme Court throws out the Russian Federation's last appeal against seizure of iconic Russian vodka brands by the former Yukos shareholders "This ruling of the Supreme Court paves the way for the sale of the Russian Federation's assets in satisfaction of the arbitral awards ," ...

👉 Young-OGEMID Seminar "Int'l Arbitration and Int'l Commercial Courts: Competitive or Complementary? (21 - 30 March 2022)" - panelists: Xandra Kramer, Andrew Godwin, Alyssa King, @pamelabookman.bsky.social -- Report: www.transnational-dispute-management.com/young-ogemid...

Singapore and Bahrain just agreed to set up an appeal mechanism from the new Bahrain International Commercial Court  to the Singapore International Commercial Court. Minister Shanmugam: "This collaboration can advance our shared interests.”

You usually like to withdraw meritless claims before you have to file something like this in court. A nice practice tip for you.

Honored to have my article, "Best Practices for Trade-Security Measures," published amongst such an amazing group of authors and articles in the latest issue of the Journal of International Economic Law. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/jiel/article... 1/

Hey LawSky! Join the ASIL Economic Law Interest Group on Zoom, Friday, Sept. 8, at 1:30 Eastern, for an Authors' Roundtable on Sanctions and Economic Statecraft. Featuring Christine Abely, Mona Ali, Daniel McDowell & Nicholas Mulder. Register here: www.asil.org/event/author...

⚖️New frontiers in forum shopping. Create a front organization in the jurisdiction you prefer. https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-equity-hedge-funds-brace-for-coming-sec-overhaul-78aa672d

Civ Pro Matters, service of process edition: https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2023/07/16/small-sellers-are-getting-swept-up-as-brands-weaponize-the-legal-system/ (h/t @ericgoldman.bsky.social)